Evening journal. [volume], June 24, 1913, Page 10, Image 10

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Peninsula Editors and Publishers Guests of the Chamber ot Commerce
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ar m n rà' er
H*IL ,r 'TÏÏ ''to 1
h lsTwhite Clav and Penche? and
&rv "God hclD the State and won't
you heuThtm.''
"In reply to the object of this meet
Continued From Second Page,
ber of the Legislature and was offer
ed the position of State Commission
er of Educatloin. which he declined,
made one of the ablest speeches of
the evening, brimful of bright say
ings. and at the same time speaqlng
straight from the shoulder ns to Wil
mington's needs as he saw them. He
satd:
"Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen:
Rural editors ha%e made the Penln
sula what it is and residents of the
suburbs of Newark; this is the great
osl combination of labor and capital
that this Peninsula has ever seen.
Another happy omen of this meeting
to we rural New Castle folk. It Is one
time that Wilmington has recognized
that there is such a thing as rural
New Castle
ing and 1 understand that I am not to
make a speech—Mr. Marvel said that
I was simply the 'cub' newspaper man
of the Peninsula, and I was to furnish
a little entertainment before the
heavyweights came on the scene. I
■would suggest that In order not to
bore you further, that you permit
your President, Mr. Marvel, Mr.
Houston of Sussex, Mr. Magee of
Kent, and\myself, who are all origin
• U J p -0 " 8uBB * x ;J°
and decide 8
^ men ^ Wllmmiton Md y™ «odï
the^ettr ne^oaneîs
oJbhsh thU whro U ^mts m
woi/t puDüßn Ulli, wnen u oomee to
the final ghowdowu, Sussex county
has always got something to say^
"I want to explain how I beoame
a rural editor. Here I am. a far
»er among editors; out home I am
""""S Jf® hTi^h,
PT* hank
w
account, Mr. Win lame, of the Oecll
a°öd«krt and as
»rwSSïh ™^«laJs ÎL^hev ^an
Si thlt^VnSl^torr' Wood's 'Whin
tbcv^LiJ^uTI clearing or cross
thov called that 'Heaven's
where I Uve. The
Cedi Whig is lust on the other side
Äf Purgatory. Here is tho bottle that
Ï was presented this evening through
Ahe Cecil Whig. I feel a good bit
îlke the editor ot the Cedi Whig while
one of his one-night stands on a
Sector* tour. He had several hard
nights and his expenses were not paid,
As he was entering the hall one night,
he was accosted by an old colored
gentleman, who said, 'Are yon one of
He said, 'Yes,
Uncle, I am the Star of the Evening.'
The old gentleman said. T would like
to see the show, but I ain't got nutthln
hut this old ynller dorg—-an old yal
1er mteer'ble 0 " r ' and .Mr. Williams
kindly Rdnilttcd hlm The next m n
Ing he paid bis bills Tor that night.
R nd be was passing up and down the
platform, and he saw the old Uncle
with his dog, and he thought that par
heps he would surely say something
kind to him, and he said, 'Uncle, what
on
the showmen 7'
did you think of the speech?' and ho
said, 'Deed, boss, you shouldn't &x'
me dad question.' 'But, Uncle, I
Tfould like your opinion,' and he said,
■ Coes, I'm awful glad I kept ray
à«wg.' That's just about the way I
feel.
"And speaking again that you Wil
mjtigton people don't recognize rural
{oik, I remember that in a recent cam
paign there came a notice one day la
press that the friends had urged
e cerUrttotoUfc«: from a rural paper to
stand for noniGia'fTo?!'" for' Congress,
and all thë Wilmington papers said,
•Who is that fellow? Never hear ot
him,' and they looked In 'Who's Who'
and they said, 'Why he's a farmer.
He used to stand In King street mar
ket. He can't represent the magnlfl
«ent and the capital Interest of Wil
mington,'—and he didn't.
"This meeting, I believe, if I Judge
Its object aright, is to create heartier
oo-operatloa between Wilmington and
tbe rural sections of Delaware, Mary
land, and Virginia. Well and good,
and 1 am not going to pay the ordin
ary banquet compliments; I have
understood from your President that
tl
aside from the social side, and wo
congratulate you on the dinner that
you have set forth, we have enjoyed
ourselves and we appreciate the In
vitation. and as one of you editors
said some few weeks ago, urging us
to come, that very likely the rural
editors ot Delaware had not seen
Wilmington—did not know Wilming
ton—and I want to tell you news
paper men of Wilmington that the
rural editors of this State know Wil
mington a heap better than you know
rural Delaware. (Applause). The
slogan of the Newark Post, and It is
the slogan of all the papers in this
State, at 6 cents a line when you
■want to give It to us. Is this: Tf you
can't get It In Newark, buy It in Wil
That has been blazed on
Ike h eadllnes of the Newark Post for
three years—Tf you can't get it in
Newark, buy It in Wilmington,' and
not only that paper, but every rural
paper of this Peninsula, has urged
our people to come to Wilmington to
do their dealing, and reciprocity has
got something to do with business.
We have urged this from a purely
sentimental standpoint. Try to boom
this rural suburb of Newark, and I
■UiiKton.'
for
three years—but you gentlemen, :f
you have toe goods, and you say you
have have so' to i .esent them to the
people of this State. Business Is not
a matter of sentiment, except with
rn ,*» ,n»'»a" 1 »I .s d ':°s r .* ^ e , are , no ' 8< j'
q à*i n sî d y ° U la ' e ' Dhil
ado phla and Baltimore are constant
ly drawing the trade away from Wil
tTrk K t°knol n thJTt ^h^ e iH°rr?,p° f 0 nrf W '
few w" k B ago I was talking
wlTh a Udy in a rurai dUtrlet .nf
she said she was going to Phliadel
phia to do sonu shopp ng ami 1 said
why don't vou go to Wilmington, and
I mentioned a prominent store here.|
and she said T have never seen Jt
advertised in the Newark Post, and it
want to say to the Chamber of Com
merce, if you can't get your printing
dene in Wilmington, don't go to Phil
adelphia, but come to Newark (ap
plause.) You will have the support
of every rural editor on this Penin
sula.
"Another thing, in order for you to
present this to the people in the pro
per light. It has got to be told in
some other column than In the edi
torial column. I am not soliciting ad
vertisements—I have done that
can't be true.' That is an actual fact,
gentlemen, and yet that man has a
transfer delivery In the town of few
ark. and there were people going to
Philadelphia to trade and the baggage
4ellvery at the B. & O. Station at
•Newark ranges from 50 to 200 jpack-J
ages a wek coming from Philadelphia.
1 said before that Wilmington was
not as well acquainted w ith the rural
districts, as the rural districts
Wilmington. The
! Peninsula and this city. We editors
i think In moulding the public opinion,
!*hlch, of course, we do, that we are
^calledupon to write a political edl
torlal every week. What do we
know about politics when wo have
the Sussex Republican and Every
Evening to tell us all the time. You
gentlemen of the Chamber of Com
merce say you want some sugges
tlons; you want to get better ac
rqualnted with us. Take the fifty
seven papers on the Peninsula; they
only cost $1.00 a year and they will
tell you every time a born Is burn
that community. Those are
suggestions, and I am not going
^ make a speech. I think the trou
We and i i ove
Delaware, Is that we have a few too
m*ny UUlo prejudices and big oper
atl °"' 1 ' bl * buslness-moro business,
a ™ handicapped through petty Jcal
ousy, through thinking that the oth
. mnn ,w nut
, tftn ,, 0 j mav
^ It. and Just In this ustanco I may
bo rubbing It in, but I think that
every editor on this Peninsula should
blush with shamo that wo slopped
*^ aUB ° We thOU , Kh
. mo " B f nt
tr prolonged.) This Cham
her of Commerce and every editor In
VOT ^ laat L **' 8,ature
BaJd ' ' 8tay 111 * eBBlon untl1 Y™ I» 88
0191 W11 ' an< ' 111 don,t oar * how muoh
mon * y he mak8B out <* If 1 cftn,t
mAlcf ' money while he 1» mak
inone l r » 1 hav ® no right to
my hérita*©/
with
country editor has boomed this old
peninsula to the best of his ability and
he asks you tonight If you won't give
value received and help him In this
project
"Another thing I would like to do
In a word to the editors—I would
are
;
like to have -wè country editors. If
possible, see if we couldn't make
some arrangements that this State
I and bb i 8 n a U 0n couldn't be served
1 wlth on i y flfty- on e political editorials
a year and the other one devoted to
business and social boom for this old
"Another suggestion for you pco
P*" of Wilmington—you want more
business and better business. Rural
New Oastle wants more people to
feed In this city, and It Is my sug
gestion to the Chamber of Commerce,
to the city of WllAlngton, and to the
editors of the papers of this Pentn
suis, that the object of this meeting
can bo attained by going cm the roof
„f this building and looking toward
the river and seeing what the possl
unities of this city are. Wilmington,
at one ttme the centre c f the
wor j d> and today when automobiles
have ^ r , Rht of way eIcfipt wlth
the city of Detroit Is
. n AAAnnn a
$1.000.000 a week to wage
' n »titnmoMle factories and
Wttlmlngbc .1 is not making a bolt. Go
U P on to P 01 th ls grand hotel and
look toward the Delaware rtver, and
never ask the rural editor of this
State and this Peninsula to support
and bring trade to Wilmington until
you give us a bigger and a bettor city.
There Is one polnt--dovelop the rlv
erfront.
''Another* thing, I think that the rural
editors of this State, It has been men
tioned I suppose by every editor that
over started a paper—three years ago,
when I came along. I thought that I
had to do the grand and noble thing
aiiû stsrt he editor's Msoclrilon. I
sent Invitations to the rural editors
of Delaware, but that's about as far
as It went. The Delaware Deader
tried to got them to come to Dover
this last year. We can help the
Chamber of Commerce, we can help
the city of Wilmington, If we will get
together, and old Sussex can lake the
lead and say 'come on Kent, come on
New Castle, come on Wilmington, and
If you are swift enough, and we will
make this old peninsula hum,'
"As another suggestion, I know of
no better way In which the Chamber
of Commerce can lead the develop
ment of this community than by fol
lowing the lead of the Agricultural
Extension Department of the College
Farm at Newark. Starling two years
ago. farmers' day was Inaugurated at
Delaware College, and Its observance
has been continued. This year they
had between B,000 and 6,000, by go
ing out through the rural section and
getting the people to come to them.
They could have stayed and Issued en
graved invitations to doom's day and
never have gotten the response that
they get today. I would like to see
a committee appointed that would
look after the agricultural Interests
and railroad transportation. You
people should have as much Interest
in our railroad facilities and down
the State as we ourselves have. 1
notice that Wilmington has been
granted stop over privileges. The
great trouble with us at Newark with
the B. and O. is to get the B, and O.
to stop. I am now going to leave
the meeting to the two other Sussex
countlans."
Judge Gray next Introduced Arley
B, Magee, of Dover, lawyer and one
of the publishers of the State News,
who also discussed interestingly and
frankly conditions as he eaw them
and emphasized the necessity for a
developed riverfront for Wilmington.
He said;
.Mr, Magee Lands Kent.
"Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen:
I, too, like the President of the
Chamber of Commerce, came near be
ing born In the State of Maryland.
He was born near Georgetown; I was
born some twelve or eighteen miles
i below that point, at what is called
I still have fond
j recollections of old Sussex, and i am
jgi a d, however, that I was born on
Delaware soil.
"When I received this Invitation *0
1 8ay something here tonight, the
writer said. "You must necessarily
make It short." That reminds m'e
t ,f an experience that 1 had out in
W est Dover hundred at the city of
Hartford. 1 was called upon to go
' out " i,h Bnme ° ,hf ' rs to a political
me0tin « ,hat " as ,0 bp hp,d ,hpre - ■
ab ™J {-"VT
1 .. . ; . ;! 9 d ' a . nd J
[ ' ' a ld Gentlemen, 1 shall not
de ,^ in >" u y pr >' lon K and somp ° ld
feI,ow who had a 'l v »n p '*<l »0 the age
of I°* Ka, d 'Thank God for that.' How-|
it ' ever * I want to say that I am not a
, newspaper editor; it is my privilege
a however,, to serve in a small way os
an officer of probably the smallest
newspaper corporation in the State
j of Delaware that Is publishing the
greatest newspaper in the State
^laughter).
; Burnt Sw amp
or
said.
"Over by the door yonder you see
our headline, our emblem, and if you
will notice from that, of "from this
card, you will firfd there on the left
i 8 represented two little chickens; In
the center is the old mother hen. Now
those two little 'nanties, one of them
represents Sussex county; the other
one represents New Castle county.
They are tugging at a worm that they
have found and are trying to see who
is to master the situation. There
stands over them the old mother hen,
safely guarding them; and so It is
that that mother hen represent« Kent
county, which keeps a watchful eye
over Sussex and over New Castle (ap
plause). We are glad to know at
least that New Castle county has once
In our recollection recognized Kent
county. There have been many oc
casions on hot days when they have
assembled In conventions and In
Dover, when Kent county was not
consulted until it was all over and
V° u had B°ne bark to New Castle
county. However, wo feel that this
a " recognition and one that we deep
f ^ r "! , 1 P rec ate und one that we wl 1 not
* *
Now, as to Kent County, I want
to say to you that Kent County like
wise knows more about the City of
Wilmington and probably knows
more and feels more of your needs
than the City of Wilmington knows
about Kent County. The northern
Part of the County, bound by that
winding and muddy Duck Creek In
part * and by the long, circuitous
ru |» t0 ot the MlspUllon on the South
-between those two points is a body
of land whlch for agricultural pur
p ° flB8 *• unsurpassed and I say It
without hesitancy, by the same nura
ber of acre« In any part of the United
HtQtefl You Bay that probab i y than
t boW . „oint vou to
{JL* ""g,," 9 ""'""- ' ' " b * . b °
lonper ^ , e bu.lne«. Mr.
Derby came down to that part ot
Kent County and bought what was
known practtcally aB a Bandy and
noor form—l no nr mnr« an res Mr
last year enough apples to have sup
Piled the City of Wilmington during
*he winter months, Mr. Derby last
year refused for that farm $180.000.
i point you again to Mr. Soper, who
is known as the "Apple King," who
through his industry, through the
vast amount of money he was re
qutrnd to expend, was forced Into the
Sheriff's hands, but by persistence
and toll has today one of the grand
est and best farms and one ot the
most productive farms anywhere In
the United States. Today I ask you,
Mr. President of the Chamber of
Commerce, can you find an Al apple
In the City of Wilmington? Do you
And them on the markets In the City
of Wilmington? I ask you If you go
t0 ,he Clt y ot New York lf y° u flnd
010111 there? You can't flnd them,
"I want to call your attention to
the fact that out ot Duck Creek there
go every season, as my friend. Mr.
George Carter, knows, thousands up
on thousands of baskets of the most
luscious grapes. Out of Little Creek
go the grain, the wheat, and the
corn; out of St. Jones goes the peach
that carries wltb it the famous Delà
ware name and Delaw are flavor; out
of MurdorkiU go hundreds of thous
ands of dollars every year; out of
the Mispilllon go groat quantities of
produce. I ask you where It goes,
Why every day the boats are plying
between these points. In the day time
they pass by here and never salute
your city; In the silence of the night
they are passing, laden to the water
line with their freight, and yet never
a er-iuto to tho City do they give.
Some felloe on the boat will pro
bably say, 'Look at the beautiful
Hotel DuPont.' Now. gentlemen, you
pass down Market street and King
street, and what do you find? You
flnd business houses that are able
to compete with any business house
in the city of Philadelphia. Y'our tax
rate here Is far below the tax rate
of Philadelphia; your rents are far
below the rente of the city ot Phila
delphia, yet thousands upon thous
ands, millions upon millions of com
merce pass your doors every day and
go to the City of Philadelphia, and
they come back laden with the pro
ducts that are required for Ken*
County from the City of Phliadel
phla. Now you ask mo, "How is this
to be remedied?" You take the dis
rlets to which I have called your
attention; they are districts that are
isolated from the railroad. Many of
them are distant seven or eight
miles; they can't be reached easily.
"But I want to tell you it right out
yonder on tho Delaware river you
coun ' y farmpra are sparing no price
m educating their sons not only In
the high sehool education, but they
are educating them to be farmers,
and that don't mean to simply follow
the plow and life harrow and to thin
corn, but it means farming upon a
scientific basis, and you
farmer's boys of today
been educ.r
will get somebody who will put up a
few thousand dollars, whatever la re
quired. and build a wharf with about
seven or eight feet of water for those
boats to get in, and If you will build
a roadway out there big enough for
a truck to get in and out. you will
not only have the advantage of the
„ . . J sJP_ m
Delaware produce and prod " p *
of Kent county, but your wagons will
go hack loaded, to t; ke back the
produce that goes down for con 'l
that the city of Wllmlngon hasn't got
what Kent county needs; It Is not
that the city of Wilmington hasn't
got what Kent county wants; It is
not that Kent county hasn't got what
the city of Wilmington needs or
wants. but that trouble lies in the
to.*t thnt the civ of Wil min eon is not
clvinc to Kent' county the facilities
h wtoel, Je cL toade and deal w th
by *hlch we car 1 trade and deal wi ll
jou. Now. gpn ,p " ,en ' J; Pnt co "" ,y
is today thoroughly a^ake and ame
to the fact that It Is a rich county,
notwithstanding the fact that some-;
body r°porfed some time ago Ibat
we l ad $85,000 bonds that we could
not pay. Now I want to say to you|
that the only Indebtedness Kent
couniy has Is a bonded Indebtedness
of $85,000 with an assessed valuation
of property of over $17.000,000.
"Kent county Is awake to the factj
that In order to make Kent county
productive it. its peaches, corn, pro
ductlve In Its grapes anj Its apples.
and to make it famous as the one
county In the State af Delaware
where the famous Delaware apples
grow, that there Is hut one solu
tion. and that is to keep on the farm
the farmer's son. Today the Kent
take the
who have
in scientific farming,
ai d 1 .ey know nothin«, want noth
sumption in our county. It Is not
ing, expect nothing, look for noth
ing, except a piece of ground that
they can make It a little better than
their neighbor's and where their
neighbor grows 50 biisbels of corn,
they expect In the next year to grow
100. I want to say that this condl
tlon has been brought about .ore
through the efforts and more through
the training given at Delaware Col
lege possibly than in any other way
(applause.)
"Now the city of Wilmington has
one other duty, one other thing it
should do. Why, the dally papers
come down there and every farmer
on the route gets his dally paper.
The evening papers from Wilmington
are distributed widely all over the
country; the morning paper is dis
trlbuted widely through the rural
sectlons of the county; yet. gentle -1
men ot the Chamber of Commerce,,
let me say to you, If you pick up
iîîl , -nu, ve,dng P a P prB ton *8 bt and y°Vr
turn through"»^ for "you" "fdve"
tlsement, what do you flnd? You
don't flnd the advertisements put out
by Wanamaker, or by Llt's or by!
Olmbel's, or some others. You take
the county papers, the rural papers,
and the only advertisements that you
see In them from the city of Wil
mlngton are the Security, Trust and
Safe Deposit Company's and the
Equitable Guarantee and Trust Com
pany's and they advertise in every
rura! paper, and I venture to say
that there Is more money from Kent
curlty' Com pan lea* than ' 'the're ""s' 1 Idle
money In the county. If a man gets
about two or three per cent, returns
which the Equitable and the Security
advertise, he sends up his money and
they send back a check book and he
checks his money out when he gets
ready. Now If you merchants as well
would advertise in about the same
way, I think wlt b a stop-off privilege
of ten days, you will see the Kent
county people come up here.
"Mr. Toastmaster, I have made
these remarks in a very crude kind
of a way I have tried to tell you
people of Wilmington what I believe
to be the truth about It, and until
you can let Kent county know whai
you have got and until you can take
care of what Kent county has, there
is not much chance, I say to you
frankly, of your creating a very big
trade with Kent county. I thank
you."
Colonel Houston Praises Sussex.
Colonel Robert G. Houston, of the
Sussex Republican, was called upon
by Judge Gray to respond for Sussex
county. Mr. Houston dwelt at length
upon the greatness of Sussex, and
also put In a word for a river front
tor Wilmington, as Mr. Magee also
had done so explicitly. V
Mr. Houston said in part:
"Mr. Toastmaster and gentlemen,
It is with some embarrassment that
I arise to address this assemblage
this evening. Sussex County has
been so well heard from already, that
it is somewhat embarrassing, but it
does please me, however, to realize
that the business men of the City of
Wilmington can so much appreciate
a good thing as to take a Sussex boy
and make him President of the
chamber of Commerce. I will remind
you tbat J{ (t bad not been for a
certain Dutchman by the name ot De
Vries, who about In 1630 discovered
what Is really now Lowes and estab
iiatied a settlement there and by
establishing that settlement estab
n s h ed the priority of the Dutch
pa tent, which Wm. Penn afterwards
took, Delaware would have been a
pa rt o* Maryland, and Instead of be
)„g b ere tonight as Delawareans w*e
bave bee n Marylanders, but why
shouldn't It be so?
"Sussex County Is a more Import
ant part of the state of Delaware. I
am 8ure> than most of you realize,
There are 1960 square miles of area
ln tbe gtate of Delaware; 950 are
f ound i n D i d Sussex,
can g row in Sussex county any
thing that any of the rest of you can
g r0 w. We grow on those stiff lands
C orn equal to anything produced by
y our lands in New Castle. Now when
we gP t into our lighter lands, we flnd
there soli that Is particularly suited
to the growth of fruits,
county, with its large area, rich in
history, strong in its development of
mP n, Is, nevertheless, gentlemen, a
county that is as yet largely unde
veloped. We have vast areas of un
cultivated farme, large areas of parti
ally uncultivated farms, and yet not
withstanding that fact. Sussex county
| B today the largest strawberry
! growing country in the United States,
Sussex
We have at the town of Seaford what
I have been informed Is the largest
pea factory—that Is canning—in the
United Slates. You will know that
Brldgeville stands the leader in
strawberry shipments. This year
they had a poor season.
"That brings me to this thought.
that this peninsula is peculiarly lo
cated between the bays, and is affect
P d bv the atmosphere from those bays,
go tfcat ip Sussex'county we have
, atTe area8 that are a ff e cted by the
Ba nie thing.
"As Judge Gray has said, we are
people 0 f a common peninsula, the
ra n road8 which cross Delaware reach
down int0 \t a rvland and Virginia the
wa(Pr which rises in Sussex countv
flIldB lf8 way to lhp B e a through your
nd s , | „ a « bound lo
p tnterests von tnteceMs
* p,hPr ' *" at „f/ st ^ ■ .
r *? t ° f U6 LVi
W " h B8me patr,ot,Bn ; ,hat fl, ' B 0,,r
h e artBi that mak e 8 us true to Mary-j
land, or true to Virginia, why can't.
the Bame lore of patriotism be ex
extended over the whole peninsula
j or common purpose and for the
common goofl
«now gentlemen, we need In Sus-i
ePX coun t y better transportation. 11
have SPPn tb e day when peaches were
a ]|owed to rot on the ground because
tbpy wou i dn *t pay the cost of trans
por'tallon Manv a time Iri the berry
SPaB on. when you people of the city
of Wilmington, are paying 16 cents or
m0 re a quart tor berries the price
our grower. obtSln won't Justify them
to 9hlp thPm what goes that mean?
It means that we must have competl
tlon. Now there is c iscrlmlnatlon,
notwithstanding the fact of our Inter
state Commerce Laws. I have In mind
right now and you can take the
schedules if you please, published by
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
to prove my assertion, and you will
find that coal Is being shipped to At
lantic City, to Ocean City, etc., at 50
cents per ton leps than It is shipped to
th® lower part of Sussex county or to
the lower part of this peninsula. The
only thing, gentlemen, that has solved
1 our problem, has not been any consid
L&raUoa hoso, (hat source, but It haal
been the invention of the refrigerator.
car. That has solved the problem in 1
Sussex county. Buyers come in and|
pay for the fruit and put it In refng-.
erator cars, and ship It out to |
a rather distant point, beyond Phlla-jtry
delphia or New York. But we have j
our water courses, and we can raise
lota of things like potatoes, onions
and non-perishable freight if we can
| only have our water courses devel
loped.
j "And speaking of what has been
Î referred to here of Wilmington get
ting out on the river: When I was
Collector of the Port of the city of
Wilmington cargoes of freight were
j taken to Philadelphia to unload be
cause the draught of the vessels was
j such that they could not enter the
| Christiana, and it is gentlemen a
lasting disgrace to the city of Wil
m | ngton . and 1 want to say to you.
as baB been suggested before,
'Charity begins at home,' and it is
| **"*""?* J ™ C ^."l
") erc ® to . ^ lt8P,f out on tbat
i rlverfront - Wp pan work ,o E pth0r for
our common good and for this com
I mon purpose. As I have already said
i' n a letter to your agent—It wasn't
'Intended for publication—that if the 1
people of Sussex county and the low-|
er part of this Peninsula go to the|
city of Philadelphia or Baltimore, it 1
is because they think they can buy]j
what they need for less money than^ss
they can buy It In the city of Wil
mlngton. If you will show our peo-'to
P 't, ,h9t y0U have the ««ods and can I
JJJJi, "vou win get the^huslnes«*^
™ , b houses in .he
p , y 01 , jlmlngton I see^ represen
ta,ivPB within my view—who do have
' olR customers from all over this
Peninsula, and gentlemen, the secret
of It is that they have advertised in
every Peninsula paper for weeks and j
weeks and years. There are whole- !
sale house in the city of Wilmington 1
that are represented in this gather
ing tonight that do a gfeat deal of I
bu siness on this Peninsula because
they have gone aft er the business. If
u OVAn aHvanit^ a»™ u nxre%
JJ their »nruantativo. 'the nt
. ten,eo P ee 0 , 1 * t> S 1 *° t J' P ' a
£ f 1 1 ! ynB on ,blB Ppl >insula and
, ave 80 d ,hfi Roods. Gentlemen,
18 up to you 10 P rove to the people
< lown thp State that you have the
goods and can sell them as low as
the other felow*.
Of course I don't
mean that In any way as a criticism,
Unfortunately, we don't know each 1
other as well as we should.
We are j
not brought together in intimate as
sociatlon as often as we should be. |
The early settlement of this State
and Peninsula plays an important
part In my mind In that there is a j
clear line of demarcation north of j
the canal and south of the canal, be-I
cause the settlers were largely an |
overflow from the counties of the up- ;
per State."
Urges Benefit of Publicity.
George Prank Lord, advertising 1
manager of the duPont Powder Com
pany and chairman of the general
commlttee that arranged for the en
tertalnment of the visitors, was called
upon by Judge Gray to discuss Pub
llclty. Mr. Lord said:
"One of the more recent applica
tions of the power of advertising Is
in the promotion of cities and terri
tories. The rapid development of
California, the Pacific Northwest,
Texas and Florida has been due first
to natural advantages and second to
the advertising of railroads, land
companies and chambers of commerce
that made these advantages known.
"The Delaware Peninsula is rich in
natural advantages, but poor in repu
tation.
"William Jennings Bryan said: 'The
man who does not advertise is Hk»
the fellow who kisses his sweetheart
In the dark. He and she know what
he is doing, but no one else does.'
"Most of you probably fully realize
the advantages ot the Delmarvia
Peninsula because you live on it. But
the world at large is in dense igno
rance of the fact that In this little
State some of the richest fruit, truck
and farming lands of America exist, at
the very threshold of the world's most
congested market.
"From the South and from the far
off West, carloads of fruit and vege
tables—inferior in flavor and keeping
qualities—are passing within a stone's
throw of superior products that can
bo marketed at much less cost to the
consumer and greater profit to the
producer.
"Wilmington, the natural clearing
house for Delmarvia products, reat
izes that Its development depends on
the development of its surrounding
territory. The selfish interests of this
city demand the development of every
farm, village, town and city in the
State.
"It Is Wilmington's duty as much
aa yours to introduce the Delmarvia
Beninsula to the American public in
Its real and important character.
Therefore we should work together
in our common interest,
"An organized and united effort
should be made to advertise the ad
vantages of the Delmarvia Peninsula,
t»°th rural and urban. I suggest that
l a promotion committee be recommend
I cd by this meeting, consisting of a
' représentative of the fruit, truck and;
farm rPa,ty lntPrP8ta of PaPh county.
!r ' nd one n,an from each city; this
PPmmlttP0 dp 'lse ways and means
lfor advertising and promoting Delà
ware> ltB opportunities and products,
, "The members of such committee
should bp broad-minded men. who
know their neighborhoods and their
1 advantages and who will co-operate
; harmoniously for the upbuilding and
! promotion of all, subordinating their
,iprivate interests to the common good,
"I will be pleased to offer my, ser
vices to the committee as far as ray
(business duties will permit."
Voire From Faslers Shore.
M"! L. Brewington, of the Wfcoml
1 co News, Salisbury, Md., responded
; for the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
In the course of hie address, show
Ing the greatness ot that section, he
said:
"There Is a woeful amount of Ig
norance even among the people of the
peninsula at Its gret t strides within
1 the past twenty-five years; its growth
i in commerce, in advanced agricul
tural thought, .n manufactures, In
finance and in shipping facilities.
"If I were to start In to enumerate
the vast commercial industries of the
peninsula, the canning industry,
which would run up Into the millions
of dollars, the lumber and milling in
terests and the stock raising of the
farmers within this territory, time
would fall me and your patience
would he exhausted
"These great strides which Uavai
been made on the peninsula have not
b gen accomplished without the aid of i
th newspaper8 pub ii 8bpd within theison.
^
tei-j-ltory. In fact, the average coun
editor contributes more towards
the development of his county than
mogt people lma e lne Hundreds of
, . , J
p °i«ran9 of free advertising are con
trlbuted yearly by the editor booming
Ibis respective locality, and with the
aid of such commendable organiza
tions as the Wilmington Chamber of
Commerce the progress of the Penin
sula will be more rapid within the
next ten years than ever before.
"Down in Maryland we are now at
work spending ten millions ot dol
, ars in the construction of a sys
, . „ . .
em of State roads ' Good roads 9
the greatest draw ing cards a county
lean have to bring In new settlers
and lnp rease the price of real estate,
In Wlclmlco county, where we have
constructed sixty miles of Improved
highways, it la impossible to buv
real estate for less than from $100
t Q j200 per acre binding on Improv
e r roads. This land formerly sold
from jigoo to $45.00 per acre. To
Rbow j UEt how catching this new Idea
0 f P rogress is, we note the fact that
n the counties where the most pro
has b.-n m-de in roadhullding,
the towns and cities have been first
take un the Question of imnroved
streets, better lighted towns and rats
b he atalldard ® f citric pride which
is bound ,0 gather ln ,orcp aB the '
y p arB come on.
"The things which will ultimately |
make this section blossom like a ioje|
garden are better transportai ion fa- |
cllitles and a connec Ing link of good ;
roads between Maryland and Ilela
ware. This your Chamber *f Com
nierce is endeavoring to bring about, i
and 1 believe that with the wdde- ]
awake energetic men of the metrop- |
oliB of Delaw are behind this move- t
we wU1 5^ ,an K 1blp results 1
*^ " a y £ y ™ yearB '
> Irirlnfa .loins, loo,
Spencer F. Rogers of the Accomac
News. Onancock, Va., responded for
the E ast e rn Shore of Virginia, he
itjeaylng in the course of his address
which was descriptive of the pro
ductiveness of taht section;
"Th^ products of our soil are sup
piemented by an abundance of fish,
oysters, clams, crabs, etc., from the
waters of the Chesapeake and the At
lantlc. Canning and fish factories are
numerous. A number of the Bal'l
more, Chesapeake and Atlantic Rpil
w-ay Company's boats daily touch
various points along the
section,
passes
with an increased number of trains
to meet the demands of the traffic,
Public highways are being Improved,
up
01 ber points.
"The climate is delightful, not hav
in R thp p oW winters or burden
Pti w 'i th the heat of long summers,
The soil is adapted to growing all
bay-side
The N. Y. P. & N. R. R.
through the central parts,
Our farms are improved wltb modern
building and villages are springing
at every railroad station and
1 "I trust this meeting may result
In finding many business men In \
crops, and our people are intelligent
and energetic. In the midst of all
these activities your humble guest is
trying to supply certain demands as
editor of the Accomac News.
every section, who are capable and j
willing to grapple with und worki
out the great problems of developing j
the resources which are now dorm-1
ant before us. And may we not hope
to attain to that high state of clvl- (
liation when every citizen shall be
possessed of truth, w'isdom and nobl- j
lltv ot character and become strong, |
!
ed a point which had occurred to me
while others were speaking here to
n *ght, and that is why should not our
representatives from Virginia. Mary
la nd and Delaware get together to ad
vertise and boom this entire penln
»nia- It isn t right that so many of
our people are going away from here,
There are more people today who are
! Delawareans in the city of Bhiladel
Iphta than there are residents at this
moment In the State of Delaware,
; Now we have got to do something that
^ keep the boy at home and keep
him Interested, ahd build up our
State; and, by the way, if we keep
more of them at home, there would
not be so much of this produce pass
In* by our doors here because there
would be more people down there to
Pat
I'" 10 * y °« fhe^ iTro^re«^«
'blnk that the pir °S rp * 8 ''L?, p *
dp en Pr channe and^ more wharf faclll
tiej on th? DeUw." Rlw but yS
* >t do thOBB th , { a 'day- but
, be prpS ent reorganized Chamber of
commerce of the City of Wilmington
ls bard i y f 0UP months old, and this
movement which the gentlemen of
Wilmington have Invited you here to
night to attend, is but the beginning
of greater things which they hope to
put into practice for your benefit and
tor the benefit of ail the rest of us."
Mayor Howell also was called on,
but begged to be excused from speak
ing.
A list of those present Included
the following:
Judge George Gray,
capable of putting down »rror and
lifting up righteousness upon which
all true progress must rest."
Governor Hiller Responds.
There were calls for Governor MT
ler to speak, and while reluctant to do
so, Inasmuch as he had been prom
ised he would not be called upon,
the Governor responded. After some
pleasantries, the Governor said:
"Now gentlemen, if you will permit
me to say just a word in which I feel
deeply interested and It Interests
every citizen of Delaware, and that is
this: I feel that we owe a great deal
to our newspapers, to our newspaper
men, to tbe press. Our state of Dela
ware is suffering now from the lack
of three essentials, good roads, im
proving farming, and a reorganization
of our educational system. It Is for
you, gentlemen, of the pen and pen
cil who are the great power (hat can
stimulate the interest of our people
in modern educational methods. It
is you who can bring (o a
the man out. in the rural district what
he should do to support modern edn-1®
cation, and I would a?k of you gen
tlemen of Delaware who form and
mould public opinion, because there j
Is no doubt that you do, that you will ,
support and assist our State Board
of Education in the work which It Is
now doing to promote better educa
tional conditions in the rural districts,
"Now, gentlemen, the gentleman on
my right here (Judge Gray) suggest
If you will give us a little
LIST OF GUESTS.
Governor
Charles R. Miller, Mayor Harrison W.
Howell, Congressman Franklin Brock
Benjamin A. Groves, president of
.. , „ v
e Le\y Court,
Editors and publishers;
S. E. Shannahan, Easton Star
Democrat, Easton, Md.
„ T .
Fred H Leffler, Cecil Democrat
Frank E. Williams. Cecil Whig, Elk
ton, Md.
T. D. Burns, Chestertown, Md.
Everett C. Johnson, Newark Post,
Newark. Del.
Ewing Brothers. Midland Journal,
Rising Sun, Md.
Edward M. Fowler, Stàte Register,
Laurel. Del.
C. O. Melvin, Ledger-Enterprise,
Pocomoke City. Md,
Caleb J. Freeman, New Era. Middle,
town, Del.
Lorle C. Quinn, Jr., Crlsfleld, Md.
W. D. Stevens. Seaford, Del.
Robert O. Houston, Georgetown,
Del.
Harry L. Brewington, Salisbury, Md.
Hpnr y Wilkinson, Ridgely, Md.
Colonel Theodore Townsend, Mil*
ford Del.
Thomas S. Start. Smyrna News,
Smyrna, Del.
Thomas F. Dunn, The Index,
Dover, Del.
s - Walls, The Observer, Cen
trpvi,lp * .
_ R - D - Hoffecker. Smyrna Times,
Sm >' rna - h*® 1 -
ter ^ d n ^ J* 1,t0n ' Kent NeW8 ' Ch63 *
Spencer F. Rogers. Accoraac News,
Onancock, Va.
E. T Tubbs, Ridgely. Md.
W. D. Bratton, Cecil County News,
Elkton, Md.
j. c. Wlckes, Delaware State News,
Dover, Del.
ger. Snow Hill, Md.
j. m, Bowen, Newark Ledger, New
ark, Del.
Geo. W. Roberts, State Sentinel,
Dover, Del.
Col. S. D. Marvll, Laurel, Del.
C. L. Vincent. Democratic Messen
Frank H. Ruth, Galena. Md.
George Carter. Evening Journal,
Wilmington, Del.
William F. Metten, Every Evening,
Wilmington, Del.
E. L. Haynes, Morning News, Wil
mington.
A. W. Cummins, Morning News.
Jerome B. Bell. Sunday Star, Wil
mington.
Clarence J. Pyle. Evening Journal,
Wilmington.
Clement 'B. Hallam, Evening Jour,
nal, Wilmington, Del.
Jos. H. Martin, Sunday Star, Wil
mington, Dei.
B. F. Simmons. Jr, Delaware Re
publican. Dover, Del.
Carl Poynter, Delaware Pilot,
Lewes, Del
Oscar S. Wilson, Georgetown. Sus
sex Journal.
A. O. H. Grier, Every Evening. Wil
mlngon.
John P. Hyatt, Sunday Star, Wil
mington.
Arley B. Magee, State News. Dover,
Del.
S. M. Crockett. Worcester Demo
crat, Pocomoke City. Md.
J. L. Rusbrtdge, Delaware City.
Max Goetz, Local Anzeiger.
Chamber of Commerce members—
Charles Warner, Walter D. Mode,
Wm. A. Mode. Geo. H. Spackman,
Baynard. Banks & Bryan, (3 repre
! sentatives), Wm. O. Robelen, John
\ J- Raskob. Equitable Guarantee &
j Trust Co., J. H, Mehaffey. A. D. War
ner * -J r • Chas. F. Wollaston. Lobdell
j Car Wheel Co., O. C. Purdy, T. W.
Wilson. Jos. S. Wilson. Geo. W.
Sparks. .Toslah Marvel. Caleb S. Lay
( ton. Josfah Wolcott. E. P. Bardo. E.
Prince. D. O. Hosfeld, Andrew
D.
j Ellason, Capelle Hardware Co., Dci
| aware Terra Cotta Co.. Geo. W. Bush
& Sons Co,. (3 representatives), J.
Ivey Jessup, Ellwood Souder, C. D.
Garretson, Wm. F. Kurtz, C. A.
Rudolph, H. P. Faber. Wilson Hard
ware Co„ (3 representatives), Wil
mington Oil & Refining Co . David T.
Marvel, David Snellenburg and guest.
O. G. Gooden, D. J. Reinhardt, Wm,
C. Murgatroyd. Millard F. Daviis, Ell
wood Davis, Nathan Miller, Jas.
Me.harg, Kennard & Co.. Wm. G. Tay
lor. Chas. C. Kurtz. Gilpin, VanTrump
& Montgomery, (5 representatives),
Joshua Conner. Wllm. Sash & Door
Co.. (2 representatives). Frederick
Brady. F. H. Stelnle. P. Lorlllard
Co.. W. J. McCorkindale. Willard A.
Speakman. N. S. Longaker, Jos. Ban
croft and guest. Jos. N. Wheeler.
! Walter S. Brown, W. Berl. John S.
iMullin and guest, H. A. Casperson,
E. B. Griffenberg. Holstein Harvey,
is
Krebs Pigment and Chemical Co.,
H. S. Schutt, Henrv Bush, Wm.
Beadenkopf, W. H, H. Willis. Selak
realizatloniHBpB^B^MBMp
I* Hoffman. Gea H „ Mr0o '' PB ?'
Hamilton. R. M. Finden, I'm. •
Coyn*, Chas. L. Story. Irving war
ner, Benj. B. Allen. Richard Repp#»,
Charles M. Banks. S. H. Baynard, W.
G. Bryan, City Solicitor Daniel O.
Hastings. Richard W. Crook. John A,
Montgomery. President of Council 8.
H. Benson. Jr., Miller Stradley Wal
ter D. Bush, Jr.. Frank J. Davis;
Levy Courtman C. W. Gooding, Hope
Wilson, District Attorney John P.
Nields, Walter S. Brown and many
others.
IS VICTIM OF INDIGESTION,
Seized with an attack of acute in
digestion at the residence of his son
in-law James Eberhard» of No. 1226
Markyt street, on Saturday evening.
T. M. Beach, manager of the Kana
wha Glass Company. Falrchance, Pa.,
died suddenly.
REAL EvSTATE—fOR RENT.
•pOR RENT.
130S Ponnn Ave.. 12 R & R
1005 TV. Second St . ft R A B
1005 W. Somnd St. «tore ...
.848.50
.$ 20.00
1710 Weit St.. 7 R & B
ft20 8. Broome 8t.. ARAB
32 K. Twenty-third Rt. 7 R ft B. $23.00
2805 TV. Second St . 6 R ft B. . .
2807 TV. Second St., ft R ft B
2R23 TV. Second St.. 5 room». . .
1307 Tf aryl and Ave.. 6 R ft B. . .
806 Elm St . 7 R ft B.
502 1 2 Shipley St., 3 room*.
807 Shir'«'.' it, 5 R ft B.■
224 French Si (Entire building) .. .888 OÔ
214 Shipley St. (building) .
620 King 8t. (»tore md cellar). ..
6 room frirae house »nd garden at
Newport. Del.
RICHARDSON PARK. '
8 room« «nd bath, hot air heat..$20.00
7 room« and bath, »team heat. $18 00
14-room houae and »table. 12 acre of Und
at Price'» Corner .$io 00
13 aeparate garages. 119 Concord are elec
trie light and water. Site 11x18*
each . • 5 oq
7- room frame house, 1-4 acre of Und
the Cedar» .
8- room frame houae. 1-2 acre of land.
Cedar« .
$23.00
. $30 00
. .$ 10.00
. $ 10.00
. .$ 10.00
. .813.00
..$15,00
. . $ 8 00
. $25.00
$15 00
.$35.00
$ 7.00
at
$14 00
at the
$17.00
R. M. CRANSTON 4
Real E.Utc, Inaurancr and Mortgage!.
Ko, 502 Shipley Street,
I